From the “'pai-de-santo' mobile phone” to the “payphone mobile phone”: humor, conflict and new sociocultural practices in the appropriation of mobile phones by low-income groups
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Mobile phones. Appropriation. Low-income groups.Abstract
This paper explores an issue rarely discussed in ciberculture studies: the use of mobile phones by low-income groups. Using the ethnographic method, I analyse the strategies employed by the dwellers of Morro São Jorge to exercise – rather precariously – their right to communication. I argue that such strategies engender new sociocultural practices that update older ones, especially regarding the use of public payphones and in the practice of making collect calls.Downloads
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